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The Fact File - Cybercommuting and Cyberworkers
- 41% of today’s workers would ideally like to spend 50% of their working time at home in a virtual office, rather than in the company office.
- Of the companies who implement cyberworkers, 77% believe that cyberworking is more productive than working solely from a company office based environment.
- Many companies say that they are managing their Cyberworkers well, 82% of employers. However, in comparison only 54% of Cyberworkers thought that their companies were managing them well.
- While 60% of employees working from home claim to have enough space, they are in fact divided through communal rooms of the household. With 30% of them working in the living room, 27% the bedroom and others separated through the dining room and kitchen.
- In multi choice questions it was discovered that as a wired community 99% employees own a PC and many of them, another 99%, use the internet for research.
- Considering the definition of teleworking includes constant telecommunications between employer, worker and client, it is surprising that both teleworkers and employers agreed that videoconferencing was not applicable to cyberworking support.
- Less than 15% of cyberworkers received advice about mortgage, tax, insurance, and health and safety when they start to work at home; just under half received nothing at all.
- Remote workers’ suggestions for improvements include: a better home working environment, more equipment, more communication with colleagues and better support from the office.
- Cybercommuters Now 15.7 Million Strong
- Cyber Dialogue, a New York-based research and consulting firm has determined there are now over 15.7 million cybercommuters in the American economy.
- Cybercommuting was defined in the research as working at home for an outside employer during normal business hours for a minimum of one day per month. The findings are based on interviews with 2,000 Americans 18 years of age and older.
- The research identified three categories of Cybercommuters: full-time employees, contract workers and part-time employees who cybercommute informally. Full-time employees who cybercommute now total 7.4 million workers. These employees work from home an average of 18 hours each week, or about 2.5 days per week. Almost half are employed by small businesses with less than 100 employees, while 1.8 million, or 24 percent, work for large companies with 1,000 or more employees.
- Over 90 percent of the 4 million contract-based cybercommuters report that they work for companies with fewer than 100 employees. None reported working for large companies with 1,000 or more employees.
- The large segment of 4.3 million part-time workers who cybercommute informally were found to be comprised largely of retirees and homemakers who are capitalizing on the full-employment economy to supplement income via home-based work. Almost three out of four in this segment are women -- by far the highest ratio of the three cybercommuting segments.
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